This is a shame.  Scott I know you dislike the folks in Newfane, but you can not hold Mr. Ruhmel completely responsible.  If the paper was correct in reporting – It stated that under the past Supervisors tenure he would allow this practice of submitting time which would be outside of the summers program period.  I wonder if you look at past years if you would see this has occurred numerous times.  The million dollar question is why make an issue with Ruhmel?  Maybe someone should change the parameters of the payment schedule for this position, so this wouldn’t happen every year.

I believe if our DA was to look at other government identities he would find this same practice and in many cases a more severe abuse of taxpayers dollars.  I just wish one time the DA's office and/or auditors would hold others accountable for the fleecing of taxpayers money.  It would take investigation – not taking the word of the department heads or elected officials. 

Unfortunately, this is occurring to often, and sadly it occurs daily.  If the average person only knew the deals and games that are being made, they would have a hard time believing.  The end result is people are buying the company line our local leaders give us and until that changes things will remain the same.